ASE - Department of American Studies and Ethnicity
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Sarah Banet-Weiser
Associate Professor of Communication and American Studies and Ethnicity
sbanet@usc.edu
Feminist theory, race and the media, children's media, popular culture, and national identity.

Juan De Lara
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow



Alice Echols
Associate Professor of English, Gender Studies and History
(213)821-1163 | echols@usc.edu
Social and Cultural Histories of Sexuality and Gender; Popular Music (particularly rock, R&B and disco); U.S. History, 1945-89; History and Theories of Feminism; Cultural Studies

Judith Fossett
Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and English
(213)740-2822 | fossett@usc.edu
(Ph.D., Princeton University, 1999) Associate Professor of English and ASE: 19th and 20th century American and African-American literature, African-American Studies, American Studies.

Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and Geography
(213)740-2426 | rwgilmor@email.usc.edu
(Ph.D., Rutgers University-New Brunswick, 1998) Associate Professor of Geography and ASE: Race and gender, labor and social movements, prison, uneven development, politics and culture, California, the U.S., the African Diaspora.

Macarena Gomez Barris
Assistant Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity
(213)740-3600 | gomezbar@email.usc.edu
Assistant Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity. Research interests include: Political Violence and Its Aftermath; Memory; Culture; Latina/o and Latin American Studies; Race and; Representation.

Sarah Gualtieri
Associate Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity
(213)740-5374 | gualtier@usc.edu
Arab Americans, Middle Eastern Diasporas, Race and Ethnicity, Gender Studies, Modern Middle Eastern History, Islamic History

Thomas Gustafson
Associate Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity
(213)740-3747 | thomasg@usc.edu
(Ph.D., Stanford University, 1986) Associate Professor of English and ASE: Colonial and 19th century American literature, American political discourse, and literature of the American West.

Felix Gutierrez
Professor of Journalism and American Studies and Ethnicity
ffgutier@usc.edu
(Ph.D.,Stanford University, 1976) Latinos and the media; Racism; Multiculturalism.

Judith Halberstam
Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Gender Studies
(213)821-1169 | halberst@email.usc.edu
(Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1991) Professor of English and ASE: Critical Theory, Film & Popular Culture, Gender Studies, 19th-Century, Queer Studies.

Karen Halttunen
Professor of History
(213)740-1682 | halttune@email.usc.edu
19th Century Cultural and Intellectual History of the US, Early American History.

Lucia Hodgson
Lecturer
(213)740-2426 | lhodgson@email.usc.edu


Stanley Huey Jr.
Associate Professor of Psychology and American Studies and Ethnicity
(213)821-2058 | hueyjr@usc.edu
(Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1998) Associate Professor of Psychology and ASE: Culture and mental health, psychosocial problems in urban settings, community-based interventions.

Jane Iwamura
Assistant Professor of Religion and of American Studies and Ethnicity
(213)821-2851 | iwamura@usc.edu
U.S. Religions with an emphasis on the Asian American context; Race and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Visual Culture; Cultural Studies

Lanita Jacobs-Huey
Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Studies and Ethnicity
(213)740-1909 | jacobshu@usc.edu
(Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1999) Associate Professor of Anthropology and ASE: African American women’s discourse; anthropology of the body; language & identity in diasporas; language & gender.

Christopher Jimenez West
Lecturer
(213)740-8999 | cwest@email.usc.edu


Robin D. G. Kelley
Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History
(213)740-1679 | rdkelley@usc.edu
(Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1987) Professor of History and ASE: African diaspora, urban studies, working class radicalism, social movements, and cultural history with an emphasis on music.

Dorinne Kondo
Professor of Anthropology and American Studies and Ethnicity
(213)740-1910 | kondo@rcf.usc.edu
(Ph.D., Harvard University, 1982) Professor of Anthropology and ASE: Race, performance-- especially work by artists of color in the U.S.; cultural theory.

Josh Kun
Associate Professor of Communication & American Studies and Ethnicity
jkun@usc.edu
Popular Music; The Pop Cultures of the US-Mexico Border; Music of Los Angeles; Cultures of Globalization; Jewish-American Studies; Comparative Ethnic Studies

Lon Kurashige
Associate Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity
(213)740-1666 | kurashig@usc.edu
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1994) Associate Professor of History and ASE: Asian-American history; Japanese American; ethnic identity politics.

Curtis Marez
Associate Professor of Cinematic Arts and American Studies and Ethnicity
cmarez@cinema.usc.edu
Popular culture and media studies in and around the US, and especially among racial and ethnic minorities and immigrants, particularly Chicanos/as and other Latinos/as.

Maria-Elena Martinez
Associate Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity
(213)740-1675 | martinem@college.usc.edu


Teresa Mc Kenna
Associate Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Spanish and Portuguese
(213)740-8276 | tmckenna@usc.edu
(Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1980) Associate Professor of English and ASE: Chicano/a and Latino/a literature; 20th century American literature and culture; ethnic American literature; gender and race.

Viet Nguyen
Associate Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity
(213)740-3746 | vnguyen@usc.edu
(Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1997) Associate Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity. Interests are: Asian American and American literature and film; the American war in Viet Nam; Vietnamese American studies; creative writing.

Manuel Pastor
Professor of Geography and American Studies and Ethnicity
(213)740-5604 | mpastor@college.usc.edu
(Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1984) Professor of Geography and ASE: Urban poverty and regional development; Latinos in the urban U.S.; environmental justice; labor markets and low-wage workers; macroeconomic stabilization in Latin America;

Laura Pulido
Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and Geography
(213)740-8048 | lpulido@usc.edu
(Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1991) Associate Professor of Geography and ASE:Race/ethnicity; social movements; political activism; Los Angeles, chicano/Latino studies; comparative ethicity

Ricardo Ramirez
Assistant Professor of Political Science and American Studies and Ethnicity
(213)740-1683 | ricardo.ramirez@usc.edu
Political Behavior, State and Local Politics, Race and Ethnicity

Shana Redmond
Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity
(213)740-5737 | sredmond@usc.edu
The African Diaspora, political cultures, African American Studies, music and popular culture, 20C social movements, labor and working-class studies, comparative ethnic studies.

David Roman
Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity
(213)740-2821 | davidr@usc.edu
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1991) Professor of English and ASE: Theatre and performance studies, Latino studies, queer studies.

John Rowe
USC Associates Chair in Humanities and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity
(213)821-5594 | johnrowe@email.usc.edu
(Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo, 1972) Professor of English and ASE: American Studies; Critical Theory

Leland Saito
Associate Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity
(213)740-3604 | lsaito@usc.edu
(Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1992) Associate Professor of Sociology and ASE: Race and ethnic relations; Asian American Studies; urban politics; urban sociology; historic preservation; economic development; redistricting; qualitative research methods

George Sanchez
Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History
(213)740-1663 | georges@usc.edu
(Ph.D., Stanford University, 1989) Professor of ASE and History: Chicano/a immigration, American West.

Francille Wilson
Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity
(213)740-1667 | frwilson@usc.edu
19th-20th Century African American history; labor; race; gender

Janelle Wong
Associate Professor of Political Science and American Studies and Ethnicity
(213)740-1696 | janellew@usc.edu
Race, Ethnicity and Politics, Political Participation, Public Opinion Research